Wire-connector.



PATENTBD JULY 24, 1906.

C. L. PEIROE, Jr WIRE CONNECTOR.

APPLIOATIOK FILED MB; 23. 1904.

CHARLES L. PEIRUE, JR.

, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WlRE-CONNEGTGHn Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24;, 1906.

Application filed February 23, 190 Serial No. 194:,799-.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, CHARLES L. Pnnion, Jr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Impro'jements in lNire-Connec tors; and I do hereby declare that the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description i as well as mechanically;

thereof.

My invention has especial reference to eans for connecting two wires electrically and it consists in certain peeuliarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of mysaid connector with wires" in place, but before the shelbflanges are b nt over, taken on the plane indicated by t 1e line 1 l in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional View of the same, taken on the plane indicated by the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse horizontal sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. is an end view of the complete device with the connected wires in place therein and the flanges bent over. 1

The principal use of my invention is in making electrical connection between the adjacent ends of; two conductors, as where a wire is broken or where a splice is necessary.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 represents the body of a shell made, preferably, of'coppen-having upper outcrilanges 2 2 and lower outer flanges 8 3 of less height. Between the upper flan es the body ,1 is formed with two longitur inal parallel semicircular grooves, (one being shown at i in Fig. 3,) and between the lower flanges 3 3 the said body has likewise two. longitudinal parallel semicircular grooves. Above the upper set of roovcs the space between the flanges 2 2 is lied with some soft or very ductile metal, like lead or some alloy or amalgam which readily flows under pressure, it being desirable that this fillin material (marked 5) should be considerably softer or more ductile than the copper or other material of which the said'shell is formed, the lower surface of the filling 5 having also scmicirculargrooves therein which register with those below in the 7 upper surface of the body 1 of copper or other arder material.

As shown in the drawings, one of "the two wires to be connected (here marked 6) is first slipped. through one of the circular grooves formed between said parts 1 and 5 and then the wire doubled under and the lower end located in the lower semicircular groove, which is just underneath the groove ill? named; Similarly, the other wire (here merited pushed. from the opposite direction through the upper circular roove, then bent. doubled under, and the lower end located in the remaining lower 'roove. Next the up per flanges 2 2 are bent over and down on the soft filling 5 and the lower flanges 3 bent over and up against the lower ends of the wires 6 and 7, as shown in Fig. 4:.

By the use of the filling materiel air and moisture are excluded from the wires within the upper part of the shell, and thereby oxi dation and consequent partial insulation prevented.

Having'thus describedmy invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A wire-connector, comprising a metallic shell with solid central body andouter upper and lower bendable flanges in pairs, the said body havin parallel longitudinal semicircular grooves between each pair of the flanges, forthe reception of the ends of the wires to beconnected, and a filling of softer or more ductile material than the shell located be tween the upper pair of flanges and grooved on its undcrsurface to register with the adjacent grooves in the ShelLbody.

shell having a solid central ho y provided with opposite bendable flanges, and a filling of softer ductile material between which and the shellthe Wires to be connected are received, the filling being held in place flanges aforesaid bent inward thereon.

In testimony that i claim the foregoing l: have hereunto set my hand, at lviilwaulree, in the county of Milwaukee and Stale of Wis consin, in the presence of two witnesses.

Cl lL iliLES L. Pill- R43 Witnesses:

H. Unnnawoon, R. J. Bliss-on.

2. A wire connector comprisinx a metallic by the I 

